Digital BW, The Print

Soundzzzzz very interestinggggg.  Ultrasonic cleaning.  

But...the head alignment is the kicker.  From other accounts, it takes some special sw or technique to get it back to spec.  

Thanks for posting. 

Steadman
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Keith Cooper 
  To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2002 7:50 AM
  Subject: [Digital BW] Taking apart printers/ultrasonic cleaning


  Hello

  Some time ago I was given a dried up Epson 800. With nothing to lose I
  removed the heads and after soaking them in a 5mm deep pool of Isopropyl
  alcohol for a few hours, put them in an ultrasonic cleaning bath (I use it
  for mapping pens and lend it to friends for jewellery :-))

  I also used a small syringe and some tubing to force alcohol through the
  jets

  After a few minutes of zapping in the bath, they were dried and put back in
  the printer - and worked fine (and continue to do so)

  Was I lucky that they still worked?
  How robust are the heads?

  There were no alignment problems afterwards, they seemed to fit back in very
  positively.

  bye for now   

  Keith Cooper


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